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 But perhaps national or municipal galleries are not the main thing necessary for the cultivation among the Welsh people themselves of a sense and capacity for art. I think it quite possible that both in England and in Wales we may have at the same time the production of hundreds and thousands of paintings or pictures, and yet a deterioration of the public and artistic taste. I think this is largely due to the fact that art and artists on the one hand, and ordinary life and industry on the other hand have, during the last century and a half, been more and more divorced, and I am convinced from what I can read and learn and observe that we can never expect a real pervasive feeling and taste for art until this divorce between the artist and his studio, on the one hand, and the workman and his work- shop, on the other hand, can be done away with, and the gulf between them be bridged over. That being so, I feel that we should not so much concern ourselves about what I may call the great master arts of painting and of sculpture and of architecture, as with the more domestic and decorative arts, to which